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This doctor saves lives through organ transplants – and he's also a world-class dancer

Johns Hopkins surgeon Dorry Segev is revolutionizing the transplant process by allowing HIV patients to receive and donate organs. But that's just his day job.

Published
10 April 2019
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From the Grapevine
Organ transplants
World’s First HIV-To-HIV Kidney Transplant With Living Donor Succeeds

The world’s first kidney transplant from a living HIV-positive donor to another HIV-positive person was successfully performed Monday by doctors at a Johns Hopkins University hospital.

Published
29 March 2019
From
Kaiser Health News
Organ transplants
Atlanta woman becomes country's first HIV+ living kidney donor

If you ask Nina Martinez why she has fought so hard to become the first HIV + living kidney donor, her answer is pretty simple. "I just wanted to be just like anybody else," Martinez says. "I think, in 2019, this is going to blow a lot of peoples' minds. Because I'm sitting here today, as someone living for 35 years with HIV, and I'm about to donate this organ."

Published
29 March 2019
From
FOX 5 Atlanta
Organ transplants
'Patient No. 1' from a Hep C heart transplant study shares his story

By the time three transplant physicians approached Tom Giangiulio Jr. about being the first patient in a new clinical trial to accept a heart from a Hepatitis C-positive donor, Giangiulio didn’t have much of a choice.

Published
08 March 2019
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Cardiovascular Business
Organ transplants
Penn team eradicates Hepatitis C in patients after heart transplants from infected donors

Nine patients at Penn Medicine have been cured of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) following lifesaving heart transplants from deceased donors who were infected with the disease, according to a study published in the American Journal of Transplantation.

Published
26 February 2019
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Organ transplants
Trial launched to study HIV-to-HIV liver transplant outcomes

The new study will track the success of 80 liver transplants to HIV-positive people. Half of the livers will come from deceased HIV-positive donors and the other half will come from deceased HIV-negative donors.

Published
16 February 2019
From
UPI
Organ transplants
Taiwan may begin allowing HIV-positive organ transplants next year

Taiwan may begin allowing HIV-positive individuals to donate organs to HIV-positive patients sometime next year, Taiwan Organ Registry and Sharing Center Chairman Lee Po-chang (李伯璋) said Friday, hoping that the necessary legislation will be passed.

Published
30 December 2018
From
Focus Taiwan
Hepatitis and HIV
Liver transplant from HIV+ living donor to negative recipient: the unanswered questions

A lifesaving partial liver transplant from an HIV-infected mother to her uninfected child – the first of its kind – was conducted last year at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Donald Gordon Medical Centre in Johannesburg. More than a year later, both mother and child are doing well. But the crucial question of the child’s HIV infection status remains unanswered. And we don’t expect to have a definitive answer any time soon.

Published
29 November 2018
From
The Conversation
Organ transplants
Making Transplant History

Advocate John Tenorio could be the first HIV-positive person to receive a kidney from a living donor with HIV.

Published
23 November 2018
From
Poz
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
What you need to know about SA's historic liver transplant from an HIV-positive donor

How could a baby get an organ from a person living with HIV and not automatically contract the virus? The experts weigh in.

Published
09 October 2018
From
Bhekisisa
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Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

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